Browsing Research Articles (Mind, Culture and Society) by Author "Steinmeyer, Elke Gisela."

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    • Blessed or bloody? Antigone in Sylvain Bemba’s Noces Posthumes de Santigone. 

      Steinmeyer, Elke Gisela. (Association of French Studies in Southern Africa., 2010)
      Dans sa pièce de théâtre Noces Posthumes de Santigone, l’écrivain congolais Sylvain Bemba a produit une adaptation africaine de la tragédie Antigone de Sophocle. Il se sert du mythe ancien pour illustrer la situation ...

    • Chanting the song of sorrow : threnody in Homer and Zakes Mda. 

      Steinmeyer, Elke Gisela. (Taylor & Francis., 2003)
      This article examines the role of threnody in ancient Greece and contemporary South Africa. The main focus is on its representation in literature, in this case a passage from Homer's Iliad and the novel Ways of Dying (1995) ...

    • Electra transformations. 

      Steinmeyer, Elke Gisela. (University of Otago., 2006)
      No abstract available.

    • Post-traumatic and post-modern : a South African "Electra". 

      Steinmeyer, Elke Gisela. (University of Stellenbosch., 2009)
      The ancient myth of Electra seems to be of particular interest to South African writers and playwrights. This article focuses on the adaptation by Mervyn McMurtry, entitled Electra, which was produced in Durban in 2000. ...